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DEFENSE AND SPACE

NASA | July 15, 2022

A SpaceX Dragon resupply spacecraft carrying more than 5,800 pounds of science experiments, crew supplies, and other cargo is on its way to the International Space Station after launching at 8:44 p.m. EDT Thursday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The spacecraft launched on a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy for the company's 25th commercial resupply services mission for NASA. It is scheduled to autonomously dock at the space station about 11:20 a....

Simple Flying | January 23, 2020

British Airways and Qatar Airways have applied to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to coordinate their services on a number of routes between Australia and the UK. This joint business venture would see collaborations on nine ‘key routes’ between the UK and Australia, via Doha. Collaboration points include scheduling, pricing, marketing, and more. The application made to the ACCC highlights nine routes to connect four Australian cities with the UK, operating v...

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NASA | June 02, 2022

NASA has selected Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace to advance spacewalking capabilities in low-Earth orbit and at the Moon, by buying services that provide astronauts with next generation spacesuit and spacewalk systems to work outside the International Space Station, explore the lunar surface on Artemis missions, and prepare for human missions to Mars. The awards leverage NASA expertise with commercial innovation to support continued science at the orbiting laboratory and long-t...

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Lockheed Martin | November 03, 2022

Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have successfully demonstrated to the U.S. Army for the first time how an uninhabited Black Hawk helicopter flying autonomously can safely and reliably perform internal and external cargo resupply missions, and a rescue operation. Performed Oct. 12, 14 and 18 as part of the U.S. Army's Project Convergence 2022 (PC22) experiment, the flights show how existing and future piloted utility helicopters co...